Talk:Electric car

The following statement is somewhat bizarre: "many of the citizens that use the electric car use renewable resources as a source of power that do not produce pollution." How many citizens do this? "Many" electric car owners apparently. And the source for this remarkable information? Anyway, do they have their own windmills powered up to charge their batteries or what? Their own hydro plants perhaps? --British_cons (talk) 17:46, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

there are many different nonpolluting resources that people use today, solar power, wind power, water power, etc.

There are many things which use electricity. Your computer, a factory which makes cars, and an electric car. All these do not produce pollution at the point where they use electricity - the pollution is generated earlier at the power station. All of these could be non-polluting if a renewable energy source were used. An electric car is no more or less naturally polluting than any of these. The fact that it could be made non-polluting if a non-polluting source were used says nothing about an electric car that could not also be said about the other electricity users. The idea that electric cars are automatically non-polluting is false. If there were a massive change in the electricity producing industry then they, along with your computer and the car making factory would be non-polluting.--British_cons (talk) 04:02, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

yes I admit that you are correct on that, but all electric cars can get power from solar powered charging stations -here is a url to a picture; I can't figure out how to get it onto the page http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~umallik/adventure/nov_06-04/solarstation2.gif --Benburned 19:46, 20 March 2007 (EDT)